Anybody want a free pair of boots?
Size 7.5 Wide. Desert tan. Hot weather type. Army standard issue.
I give up my sizes (top, bottom, hat, gloves, boots) about once every three months. Once every three months someone (usually supply) needs my sizes for god knows what. I cough up the same sizes every time; Small-Regular, Small-Short, 7.25, 8, 9.5 Regular. This last time we went to get new uniforms before this deployment I got small boots. I got small boots because the guy there told us not to go by the size we usually wear because these were different boots. The boot he gave me that he said was 9.5R was too big. The boot that felt closest to fitting was 7.5W. Whatever. I'm not wearing them right now, my boots are fine.
So I didn't wear them until about three months into the deployment. 7.5W is too fucking small. They don't fit. I can't get them swapped out because I'm in Iraq and there's not shit that can be done out here about it. Oh well, one pair of boots down the drain. It's a good thing the Army buys us new uniforms while we're in country, hopefully I can get a new pair of boots that fit.
Wrong. Even though I give up my sizes once every three months, supply decided to go with what I was issued more than nine months ago. A size I've never worn before as I've always worn size 9.5R boots. Every pair of boots I own are size 9.5R and every pair fits except these two pairs of worthless boots. So since I've got a brand new pair of boots that I know don't fit I thought I'd take them to my supply guy so I can get them sent back and get a proper pair out here that do fit.
Wrong again. My new supply guy must get off on fucking other soldiers because he basically told me I could go fuck myself. He said he can't (or won't as I believe is the case) send them back and I could try to find someone who wears a 7.5W boot (no one) and give them to them and let me get the right size when they get their stuff or else I'm stuck with boots that don't fit. So I'm stuck with boots that don't fit for a second time.
So if no one wants these brand new 7.5 Wide, desert tan, hot weather standard issue Army boots, then I'm either giving them away to some Iraqi kid who needs them (most likely) or throwing them in the trash (out of spite). Because 7.5W boots are worthless to my 9.5R feet.